Klarinet Archive - Posting 000415.txt from 2003/07

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Accidentals in the same octave only
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 01:46:16 -0400

When someone last year first stated the rule that accidentals apply only to
the note in the octave in which they appear, I was stunned; I've played the
piano for 35 years, and I'd never heard that.

Since then, I have been looking for music that either demonstrates or
contradicts that rule. This weekend, I happened across a piece that DOES
demonstrate the rule. It is a piano transcription of Elgar's "Pomp and
Circumstance", published in 1958 by Carl Fischer Music. It contains at
least seven measures in which an accidental is obviously not intended to
apply in other octaves.

I scanned a 5-measure stretch of the music that includes 3 examples of
this. If you're curious, poke here:

http://www.probo.com/timr/signature.html

I know this is not definitive, and I suspect nothing ever will be, but this
is an example of professional engraving by a well-respected publisher.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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